Sentences with phrase «focused school culture»

Alexander provides leadership mentoring services, 1 - day School Culture leadership sessions, and 1 - day staff - focused School Culture presentations.

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Their Game Design degree, like many other schools that offer such a degree, focuses on visual communication and game design theories, rather than the culture and businesses behind gaming environments.

Adults need to focus on common values of respect and civility and take the culture war off the school campus.

But unlike Barth's own attack on natural theology, this school tended to cluster the two foci of theology, reason and revelation, into specific historical cultures.

The objection was that congregations are by and large far too ideologically captive to their host cultures to be suitable as the lens through which theological schooling is focused.

Theological schooling will need to focus on those tensions and conflicts and the various strategies congregations employ in negotiating them when they use the host culture's languages to practice their own discipleship.

As more parents express concerns about the consumerist and hedonistic youth culture that their children are exposed to in mass media, they naturally favor schools that filter out its worst elements and focus young minds on worthier things.

Unfortunately, she is typical of a breed of teenagers who have become so focused — by their parents, their schools, the culture, their peers and themselves on gaming the system, cheating when necessary and believing that money and material goods are the foundation of a life well - lived — that they have little opportunity to develop the kinds of ideas that used to be typical of teenagers.

Crucially, there is also focus on highlighting what has worked well in other schools, in order to help participants identify some of the practical steps they can take to improve the food culture in their own school.

For instance, with two dual - language Vietnamese schools in the district now, Tanner and her team added banh mi and pho to the menu served at all the schools, not just the two with a focus on that language and culture.

From the time when the Columbine school shooting rocketed through the news, to now when cry - it - out sleep training is being openly debated rather than just merely accepted as the norm — reflecting the huge change we, as a culture, are having on the idea of relationship — there was 1 or 2 generations of individuals who were transitioning from the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and focused on problem - solving.

Date: Thursday, May 17, 2018 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Location: Windwoods 29 School House Rd., Branford, CT Breakfast Included Topic: «Infant Mental Health: Early Relationships in Context of Communities, Culture, and Families, with a focus on implicit bias.»

Students cite trying to «get ahead» and getting into the «right» college along with a school culture that is «overly focused on achievement» as justifications for cheating.

The very day after Silver was arrested, Bharara gave a talk at New York Law School where he urged people to focus their outrage and join him in taking on the culture of corruption in Albany.

«Wadleigh Middle School is part of Harlem's integrity; it's part of Harlem's culture,» he remarked of the school, which he said was valuable in providing the neighborhood's children with a performing arts - focused educSchool is part of Harlem's integrity; it's part of Harlem's culture,» he remarked of the school, which he said was valuable in providing the neighborhood's children with a performing arts - focused educschool, which he said was valuable in providing the neighborhood's children with a performing arts - focused education.

It also heavily focuses on the role that teachers can play by providing head teachers with training in nutrition and doing something that Schabas says is critical to the long - term success of the plan: helping teachers develop ways to change the eating culture in their schools.

As my Fordham colleague Chester Finn recently observed, longstanding bipartisan support for the education reform agenda has collapsed: «As Democrats pander to teachers» unions and minority grievances and Republicans focus on social issues and culture wars, little energy remains for school reform.»

Schooling is certainly an easier object of policy focus than youth culture, but unless the values of schooling and of youth culture are congruent, then schooling is likelySchooling is certainly an easier object of policy focus than youth culture, but unless the values of schooling and of youth culture are congruent, then schooling is likelyschooling and of youth culture are congruent, then schooling is likelyschooling is likely to lose.

The power of culture - and its effect on student achievement - is evident in adolescents» lesser concentration on academic endeavors as they focus more on television, video games, and excessive employment during the school year.

She knew that the staff would resist any significant changes coming from someone so new to their school, so she focused first on relationships, got to know the school and its culture, and built trust before bringing in her new ideas.

One of the things they [architects] also do, which the accountants do too but they create an all - through schools — because we focus on secondary schools (from the age of 11 up to 16)-- but one of the things that the architects would do is that they would combine with a primary school so that they are teaching the children for longer and they are starting to embed the right culture and the right practice and the right behaviour much earlier on.

Instead, schools need a fundamental culture change, shifting their focus away from sport and towards physical activity.

This reader submission focuses on the principal of a school that has experienced a remarkable improvement in graduation numbers, due to sustained change in the school culture.

«And, the pattern that I saw, over and over again, was schools that would either devote themselves to getting the kids to score well on tests, or they would focus on the culture - and in either case they didn't seem to succeed very well.»

Domain 5 — the idea of teachers in the school sharing and showcasing best practice to support professional learning of others, and this idea of a self - reflective culture, focus on improving classroom teaching, that was... this really informed our vision.

Those goals include raising West Charlotte High School's graduation rate from 54 percent in 2011 to 90 percent in 2016, and she saw that the Opportunity Culture models could help by focusing on its eight feeder schools.

In all three cases, academy conversion has been seized as a one - off opportunity to sweep away long - standing issues, to reinvigorate staff culture, and to ensure that the school is truly focused on delivering the best possible education for children.

He brought a business - like culture to the school which survives today, customer ‑ focused with a clear eye on the bottom line: it is the most professional, results - driven and student - centred school I have known.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

The researchers identified two types of teams: content teams, in which teachers focused on curriculum, lessons, and pedagogy; and cohort teams, in which teachers discussed behavior, individual student needs, and school culture.

Todd Whitaker and Steve Gruenert's excellent book School Culture Rewired: How to Define, Assess, and Transform It makes a powerful case for why focusing on culture is our primary concern as site leaders: «Culture is not a problem that needs to be solved, but rather a framework that a group can use to solve problems» Culture Rewired: How to Define, Assess, and Transform It makes a powerful case for why focusing on culture is our primary concern as site leaders: «Culture is not a problem that needs to be solved, but rather a framework that a group can use to solve problems» culture is our primary concern as site leaders: «Culture is not a problem that needs to be solved, but rather a framework that a group can use to solve problems» Culture is not a problem that needs to be solved, but rather a framework that a group can use to solve problems» (p. 6).

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

Ferro and her co-director Deborah Hoard focused on U.S. public schools which seek to create a «culture of intellectual life» and to respect «the whole child as a learner and as an adult in training.»

While Yes Prep's fondness for project learning was highlighted, much of Edutopia's coverage focused on how to re-create the school's college - bound culture and tough - love discipline code.

In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent «society of adolescents,» an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmFocus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmfocus on character development).

Dr. Lombardi's strengths as principal at Garza ECHS include the development of a positive, collaborative school culture focused on college success, the academic empowerment of students, the implementation of a common instructional framework, and the enactment of systems - thinking for discipline, grading, scheduling and interventions.

In our first article on the STAR School - Placing importance on relationships - Sorensen recalled that the goal was to create a model that not only focused on culture, but also led to high levels of student achievement.

For several years our school has been focused on school improvement and changing the culture of the school in order to truly become a «professional learning community.»

«We really thought it was important that we had a strong Asian focus here in Western Sydney because this is where we're at; we've got a large Filipino community that feeds to the school, there's a lot of interest in Asian culture, we have children from the subcontinent, [and] quite a number of Islander and Pasifika students as well.

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

Together these findings suggest that the benefits of attending a career academy may relate as much to the school culture as the particular career focus, similar to the benefits of attending a small school or «school - within - a-school.»

For this reason, among many other examples of the influence of policy on school culture, I have switched my focus to the power of education in shaping communities» cultures and values.

This lesson bundle focuses on: Vocabulary: greetings, family, friends, home and school, travel and nature, and history and communities Grammar: number and gender, articles, pronouns, punctuation, «Ser vs. Estar,» regular verbs in present and preterite, possession, and time Culture: independence of countries on the American continent; culture of the Spanish - speaking world, globally and in the US; and historical figures * We have provided the videos embedded within the lesson PDF and also separately inCulture: independence of countries on the American continent; culture of the Spanish - speaking world, globally and in the US; and historical figures * We have provided the videos embedded within the lesson PDF and also separately inculture of the Spanish - speaking world, globally and in the US; and historical figures * We have provided the videos embedded within the lesson PDF and also separately in -LRB-.

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

While many will apply, you will want to focus on a small number, just three to five, that you will seriously try to implement as part of school culture and climate.

As a consultant I work with schools on systemic implementation of differentiated instruction, project - based learning, eliminating assessment and grade fog, and culture building — all with a focus on student voice.

«We changed our school culture into one that focused on teacher collaboration and looking at the right data,» says Cordova.

School practices are organized into eight categories: student focus and support; school organ - ization and culture; challenging standards and curriculum; active teaching and learning; professional community; leadership and educational vitality; school, family, and community partnerships; and indicators of suSchool practices are organized into eight categories: student focus and support; school organ - ization and culture; challenging standards and curriculum; active teaching and learning; professional community; leadership and educational vitality; school, family, and community partnerships; and indicators of suschool organ - ization and culture; challenging standards and curriculum; active teaching and learning; professional community; leadership and educational vitality; school, family, and community partnerships; and indicators of suschool, family, and community partnerships; and indicators of success.

Schools need a fundamental culture change, shifting their focus away from sport and towards physical activity, writes Miranda Markham